Re: r8152: data corruption in various scenarios

[Kai Heng Feng]

> On Jan 7, 2019, at 05:16, Mark Lord <mlord@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On 2019-01-06 4:13 p.m., Mark Lord wrote:
>> On 2019-01-06 2:14 p.m., Kai Heng Feng wrote:>> On Jan 5, 2019, at 10:14 PM, Mark Lord
>> <mlord@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> ..
>>>> There is even now a special hack in the upstream r8152.c to attempt to detect
>>>> a Dell TB16 dock and disable RX Aggregation in the driver to prevent such issues.
>>>> 
>>>> Well.. I have a WD15 dock, not a TB16, and that same hack also catches my dock
>>>> in its net:
>>>> 
>>>>   [5.794641] usb 4-1.2: Dell TB16 Dock, disable RX aggregation
>>> 
>>> The serial should be unique according to Dell.
>>> 
>>>> So one issue is that the code is not correctly identifying the dock,
>>>> and the WD15 is claimed to be immune from the r8152 issues.
>>> 
>>> The WD15 I tested didn't use that serial number though...
>> 
>> What info do you need from me about the WD15 so this can be corrected?
>> 
>>>>  xhci_hcd 0000:39:00.0: ERROR Transfer event TRB DMA ptr not part of current TD ep_index 13
>>>> comp_code 1
>>> 
>>> This is probably an xHC bug. A similar issue is fixed by commit 9da5a1092b13
>>> ("xhci: Bad Ethernet performance plugged in ASM1042A hostâ). 
>>> 
>>>> I just got that exact message above, with the r8152 in my 1-day old WD15 dock,
>>>> with the TB16 "workaround" enabled in Linux kernel 4.20.0.
>>> 
>>> Is the xHC WD15 connected an ASMedia one?
>> 
>> I don't know.  I *think* it identifies as a DSL6340 (see below).
>> 
>> Here is lspci and lsusb:
>> 
>> $ lspci -vt
>> -[0000:00]-+-00.0  Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers
>>           +-02.0  Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 620
>>           +-04.0  Intel Corporation Skylake Processor Thermal Subsystem
>>           +-14.0  Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP USB 3.0 xHCI Controller
>>           +-14.2  Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Thermal subsystem
>>           +-15.0  Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #0
>>           +-15.1  Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #1
>>           +-16.0  Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP CSME HECI #1
>>           +-1c.0-[01-39]----00.0-[02-39]--+-00.0-[03]--
>>           |                               +-01.0-[04-38]--
>>           |                               \-02.0-[39]----00.0  Intel Corporation DSL6340 USB 3.1
>> Controller [Alpine Ridge]
>>           +-1c.4-[3a]----00.0  Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
>>           +-1d.0-[3b]----00.0  Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device a808
>>           +-1f.0  Intel Corporation Device 9d4e
>>           +-1f.2  Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PMC
>>           +-1f.3  Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio
>>           \-1f.4  Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP SMBus
> 
> 
> Mmm.. lspci -vt isn't as verbose as I thought, so here is plain lspci to fill in the blanks:
> 
> $ lspci
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM
> Registers (rev 08)
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 620 (rev 07)
> 
> 00:04.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Skylake Processor Thermal Subsystem (rev 08)
> 
> 00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP USB 3.0 xHCI Controller (rev 21)
> 
> 00:14.2 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Thermal subsystem (rev 21)
> 
> 00:15.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #0
> (rev 21)
> 00:15.1 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #1
> (rev 21)
> 00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP CSME HECI #1 (rev 21)
> 
> 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PCI Express Root Port (rev f1)
> 
> 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #5 (rev f1)
> 
> 00:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #9 (rev f1)
> 
> 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Device 9d4e (rev 21)
> 
> 00:1f.2 Memory controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PMC (rev 21)
> 
> 00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio (rev 21)
> 
> 00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP SMBus (rev 21)
> 
> 01:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation DSL6340 Thunderbolt 3 Bridge [Alpine Ridge 2C 2015]
> 
> 02:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation DSL6340 Thunderbolt 3 Bridge [Alpine Ridge 2C 2015]
> 
> 02:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation DSL6340 Thunderbolt 3 Bridge [Alpine Ridge 2C 2015]
> 
> 02:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation DSL6340 Thunderbolt 3 Bridge [Alpine Ridge 2C 2015]
> 
> 39:00.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation DSL6340 USB 3.1 Controller [Alpine Ridge]

So itâs not an ASMedia one.

Before digging further, please make sure the system firmware (BIOS), Thunderbolt controller NVM and WD15 firmware are all up-to-date.

Kai-Heng

> 
> 3a:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 32)
> 
> 3b:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device a808
> 
> 
> -- 
> Mark Lord
> Real-Time Remedies Inc.
> mlord@xxxxxxxxx